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Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'A correspondence between the spectrum of the potassium ion and the spectrum of argon' by H Grayson Smith

Reference number: RR/28/114

Date: 19 February 1923

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The comparison is inadequate and the results trivial. Refers to more comprehensive work by Pieter Zeeman and Dik [?], and John Cunningham McLennan. 'The paper has nothing at all to recommend it for favourable consideration'.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 20 February 1923.

Reference number
RR/28/114
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19 February 1923
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Standardised form (type D) and letter on paper
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8 pages
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Typescript
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Alfred Fowler

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Alfred Fowler, Referee's report by Alfred Fowler, on a paper 'A correspondence between the spectrum of the potassium ion and the spectrum of argon' by H Grayson Smith, 19 February 1923, RR/28/114, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_114/referees-report-by-alfred-fowler-on-a-paper-a-correspondence-between-the-spectrum-of-the-potassium-ion-and-the-spectrum-of-argon-by-h-grayson-smith, accessed on 01 December 2024

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